global economic control. the powers that be will tell you it is nothing new, that multi-national corporations have been doing it for decades and that politicians are merely trying to take it out of the hands of unscrupulous business men and placing it under the control of the representatives of the people. i can't help but wonder how the people can be represented on a global scale. i see our own bureaucracy, so far beyond the control of the people it is supposed to represent, and find it inconceivable how the people might influence an authority that would claim dominion over the entire planet.

the people, what an ethereal term. the common man, the proletariat, the masses, the working stiffs. i'm not sure our leaders even understand the meaning of the word and i'm sure they couldn't care less about what the people want. we are merely numbers to be counted and sheep to be shorn, the source of their power that are useless once they are sufficiently cowed and stripped of their self-determination. the people cannot possibly be left in charge of their own fates. they must be herded like cattle, milked of their labor and kept satisfied with bread and circuses. isn't it the duty of governments to use their armed might to keep the mob under control?

a global economy, global justice, global government. an entire planet under the thumb of the few, with armies to quell rebellion and the media under their control to soothe the people with lies and the occasional scapegoat for their amusement. this is the ultimate form of those eternal dreams of empire, a mainstay of tyrants since the dawn of time. this ain't nothing new.